QISU Data

Data Overview

Injury surveillance data consists of information obtained from participating hospital emergency departments in Queensland. This data is validated using the National Data Standards for Injury Surveillance (NDSIS).

The Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU) is able to run data searches on the data collected to provide a custom-tailored injury data report.
Data items currently collected includes:

Demographics (Age, sex, postcode)
Country of birth
Language
Time and date of injury event
Text narrative of injury event
Cause of injury (eg fall, poisoning)
Intent of incident (accident, assault, etc)
Place of injury (eg. Playground at Public Park)
Activity (eg. playing cricket)
Nature of injury and body location
Diagnosis (ICD 10 AM / SNOMED)
Mechanism of injury
Major injury factor (eg. grinder)
Triage category (indication of severity)
Admission status

Reports may be based on combinations of these criteria to obtain specific injury information on your area of interest.Patient identifiers, including postcodes are not included in reports, unless appropriate ethics approvals are provided.Requests for data reports can be completed on the Data Request page.

The table below shows an overview of collecting hospitals and their method of data collection.

Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit
Jamieson Trauma Institute
Metro North Hospital and Health Service
Level 11, Block 7
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
HERSTON QLD 4029

Phone: (07) 3646 3872
Email: qisu@health.qld.gov.au

Data Collection

QISU collects injury surveillance data from participating Queensland hospitals using different collection methods.

Paper-based

HBCIS

EDIS

FirstNet

Hospitals	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Status
ATHERTON																							Not Active
BLACKWATER																							Active
BOWEN																							Not Active
BUNDABERG																							Active
CAPRICORN COAST																							Active
CHERBOURG																							Active
CLERMONT																							Active
COLLINSVILLE																							Active
DYSART																							Active
GATTON																							Not Active
GLADSTONE																							Active
GC ROBINA																							Not Active
HUGHENDEN																							Not Active
INNISFAIL																							Not Active
LOGAN																							Not Active
MACKAY																							Not Active
MAREEBA																							Not Active
MARYBOROUGH																							Active
MATER ADULT PRIVATE																							Not Active
MATER ADULT PUBLIC																							Not Active
MATER CHILDRENS PUBLIC																							Not Active
MATER MACKAY																							Not Active
MORANBAH																							Active
MOUNT ISA																							Active
OAKEY																							Active
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA																							Not Active
PROSERPINE																							Not Active
QEII JUBILEE																							Not Active
QCH																							Active
REDLAND																							Not Active
RICHMOND																							Not Active
ROCKHAMPTON																							Active
RBWH																							Active
ROYAL CHILDRENS																							Not Active
SARINA																							Not Active
ST VINCENT'S T'WBA																							Not Active
SPRINGSURE																							Active
TOOWOOMBA																							Not Active
TOWNSVILLE																							Not Active
TULLY																							Not Active
WARWICK																							Active
YARRABAH																							Active

Update 23/09/2020